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A lot of fun competition this afternoon. Folk were helping each other get along until someone re-raised all in. Then it was each best hand for itself. Thought I had a cinch three of a kind an hour and a half into the blogger's tournament, and got 'flushed' down the river, again. At least I didn't go out on a single pair. Or worse, a bluff. Will try again next year...

Gulp

Have you see all the prizes for this tournament today? I do not want to go out on the bubble this year! And why aren't you playing?

Omaha Luck

Thanks Nadine, luck was with me today. Enough good luck to get to the final table through six tables of live players. I arrived a half an hour late. Zooming down the interstate number fifteen was not as quick as I would have liked it to have been. I walked up to the desk and asked the director if I could still buy in. He said if he has a seat in the next fifteen minutes, I could buy in then. So I left my name and filled a cup of player's coffee and waited. A few other people asked the same thing and ten minutes later, a new table was started for a half a dozen of us plus an over flow from a non-dwindling table. As you can see buy the rapid blind structure, you need to make a move fast and collect chips, or buy the time the blind bets get to ten thousand and twenty thousand, you aren't going to last very long. Still I played the tightest omaha game of my life. For going a king with a pair of sixes and waiting for pairs of kings, queens, and aces to play with an ace two for the low half of the pot, if a low hand qualified. To qualify for a low hand, you have to have five cards that are eight or less. Three on the board, and two in your hand. For the high hand, normal poker rules apply except for the three on the board, two in your hand rule. Came in seventh of nearly sixty and took home a benjamin for my trouble. Time to rest from the playing and the traffic there and back. Will be shooting for good time Sunday afternoon for the blogger tournament.

Air Apparent

Wow, running the portable room air-conditioner for a couple of days last month doubled my electric bill. Yeah, right. An upstairs apartment with windows on all four sides. Now where am I going to find thirty bucks... Hmmm, there's a Omaha tournament in Lake Elsinore this morning. Warm up the mini, I'm motoring!

So long dinner

One of the couples I met at the Stadium Club this year threw an after season thank you dinner for the bartenders and wait staff that treated us so well over the last few years and asked me to participate. I gladly accepted to help show my appreciation for the wonderful professional and friendly service I always get there. We met at a BBQ Restaurant at a mall in the valley, and the one that requested a non-sushi place went to Arizona to watch her cubs in the playoffs instead. No worries, the other nine of us showed up and had a great time. I'm glad I showed up to help thank them for another wonderful year of service.

Addictinggames

Maudie embedded this thing into her blog and now I can't stop playing it between calls...

Blogger's Poker Tournament coming up at Poker Stars

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 3512560

Have you?

Just Foolin' Around

Remember that ten bucks that Doyle's Room gave me for just being a player of free games. Then they deceided that they did not want to cater to USA customers after the IGA was tacked onto the defense budget and signed into law. I was forced to move that ten bucks to full tilt or lose it into the ether. So I created a full tilt account and moved the sawbuck over a few months ago. On my day off today, I went to play a few free money HORSE sit and go's. Was having so much fun, I used a buck and a quarter to enter my first online tournament for pay. The picture shows that I was lucky enough to beat out forty four other players for first prize. Not nearly as much as a face to face live tournament, it was a fun feeling getting into the final six and into the money at all. Cool, a new way to pass the time while folding laundry or hunting up some lunch.